Category: Lifestyle

If you’re ready to restart your digestion, we challenge you to try the SCR guidelines for 30 days: Most people feel significant improvement in energy, digestion, mood, and pain within 10 days. By the end of 30 days, your digestive system will start making better decisions for you—you’ll notice new cravings for healthier, seasonal foods.…

The 3 Big Mistakes Keeping Your Digestion Offline Three major dietary habits are putting your digestion to sleep: We call this the SCR problem. Most people think they’re doing the right thing by eating salads, smoothies, and protein bars, but in reality, they are overloading their digestive systems. Sweet foods—even artificial or natural sweeteners—disrupt our…

Contrary to popular belief, fat is not stored energy—at least not in the Chinese medicine framework. It’s accumulated waste. When digestion is weak, it can’t process and eliminate waste effectively. That waste becomes what we call “dampness,” which eventually becomes fat. Science backs this up. When fat breaks down, it becomes carbon dioxide and water.…

Low Energy? It Might Be Your Digestion If your energy is low, the issue may not be your lifestyle, but your digestive system. Think of digestion like a cooking pot. For that pot to steam up nutrient-rich Qi (energy), the food must be cooked properly: warm, moist, and full of nourishment. But when digestion is…

Pain, Inflammation, and the Digestive Connection Modern medicine often treats pain like a villain. But in Chinese medicine, pain is a signal — your body asking for help. Pain is linked to inflammation, and inflammation is the body’s natural attempt to repair damage. But what happens when your body can’t complete the repair? That’s when…

The Downward Spiral of Energy, Weight, and Injury At Red Earth Acupuncture, we frequently see patients struggling with fatigue, weight gain, and injuries that just won’t heal. Often, they feel trapped in a cycle where each attempt to “push through” only makes things worse. We hear it all the time: “My doctor told me to…

As we step deeper into spring, we find ourselves approaching a meaningful seasonal threshold in the traditional East Asian calendar: Lìxià (立夏) — the Start of Summer. This is the moment when nature begins to stretch fully into warmth, when blossoms give way to fruit, and the energy of growth turns outward. It’s a time…